I do feel like I am my cats’ entertainment director and one of Sirius’ favourite activities is gardening. He does enjoy being involved. Especially with the dirt. What is it with dirt and boys? Watering is fun, too. Tamyra likes water. Tamyra likes water a lot. So not one but two kitty helpers. Argh! Hmm [...]
I’m late in getting my gardening started this year but I was fortunate enough to have a proper gardener come and do some of the digging last year so all I had to do was planting. I have onion sets down the left, then carrots and beetroot in the other sections. I decide it was [...]
I have started thinking about what I’m going to grow this year. Never grown mushrooms before as pao doesn’t like them. I am stupidly excited about growing mushrooms as it looks cool. I only paid a measly pound each for each of the kits (around $1.50). What a bargain The cats were very interested in [...]
I’ve been very quiet on the gardening front this year. Almost all my plantings apart from the carrots were from other people’s plants. I did try starting off some seed but it all went a bit awry so I had to give up and get some ready started plants. But I didn’t do too badly, [...]
I haven’t mentioned my garden this year as it has been a bit of a sore point. I killed some tomato plants and others through neglect – my excuse was that it was too hot in April when it is normally cold and I did forget to water them. I was also feeling churlish as [...]
Happy 4th of July! Hope you are having a wonderful day in the US! I am always in a celebratory mood when we get to the Fourth of July as it is only two days to my birthday and three to our wedding anniversary so a great great week. Also, my friend J from school’s [...]
A handful of chestnuts gathered on an autumn walk… a last bunch of sweet carrots gathered in the garden.. It is the time to tidy away the old and start to get set in for the winter and new growth in the spring. New ways of doing and seeing. A new season. Even Sirius has [...]
Carrie K commented that I’d gone a bit AWOL lately – sorry I’m not really myself at the moment but I have managed to find some lovelies to show you… I’ve had a mixed summer so far with veg crops. Here is some of what I harvested in August. I grew some really nice heritage [...]
Sooooo, I kind of went a bit AWOL there. Sorry for that – it’s been a difficult time but I won’t go into that. Instead it is time for a Saturday morning bullet post. Slipped discs. Part of my AWOL-ness is because pao has slipped a disc and it is dreadful pain. Another couple of [...]
Sirius is a very attentive under gardener who likes to watch from his perch. He isn’t content to look from afar and got straight down and checked out the self-watering troughs which will hold miniature carrots to make sure I had just the right amount of water in the bottom. He was very interested in [...]